SpRING Term week 9
Date: 19th & 20th March 2024
Tutor: Sian ( & maybe Rob)
Free painting
What to Bring
Your usual painting materials.
Some of the afternoon group have requested a demo-exercise of roses. You are welcome to join us, or to get one with your own painting. if you decided to join us it would be very useful to have either a stretched piece of watercolour paper, or a block.
I have put up some reference photos which you can download/save HERE
TIPS
1 Look at the coloured image.
Break down the image into areas of light, mid and dark colours. Where are the lightest colours? Where are the darkest colours? Where are the colours in between?
2 NOW look at the B & W versions ( Scroll through the gallery using the arrows at the side of the picture)
Break down the image into areas of light, mid and dark tones. Where are the lightest lights? Where are the darkest darks? Where are the mid-tones?
3 Now ask yourself these questions:
Where are the darkest dark tones? Are they in the same place as the darkest colours?
Where are the lightest light tones? Are the highlights in the same place as the lightest colours?
Where are the mid-tones? Does their placement in the picture match where you bought the mid-colours were?
When you first look at the picture, are you aware of whether your eye is drawn first to the lights, the darks or somewhere in between?
Did you eye follow the same path across the image in the three different versions?
Were there areas where what you perceived to be two distinct colours merged into one patch where viewed in B & W?
Were hard edges in colour that became soft edges when looked tonally?
TOPIC of the Week: INTRODUCTION to the theme for the term
This term we will be looking again at tone. We will be looking (hard!) at how drawing can increase our awareness of tone. We will be also be considering tonal values across an image within a composition, and ways of increasing our understanding of the relationship between tone and colour.
Quote of the week
You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
John Singer Sargent
American artist. 1856-1925
gallery of the week
White Chapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St London E1 7QX
WHITE CHAPEL GALLERY
They say:
“Our mission is to make contemporary art and ideas accessible to the widest possible audiences, and our pioneering learning and outreach programmes recognise the critical role that art can play in firing imaginations, reflecting lived experiences, and opening up new possibilities for thinking, feeling and dreaming.”
True. This gallery I a few minutes walk from my brother’s flat. Although it is extremely well know it is one I would not have bothered to visit otherwise. I was wrong.
Very contemporary I have seen some inspriing exhibitions there. Not artists I would like to emulate necessarily, but certainly art that made me think and inspired a new lines of thought about my own art. Worth a visit.
Click on the images left to expand. I took these during one of my visits. the exhibition was by Mary Hellman, who h a great sense of fun.
Last updated: 11.12.23